If I was to watch the next jake paul fight on netflix, but only watch the first couple fights and turned it off before watching him fight.Would they know?
from Jerb322@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 12 Dec 22:24
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I would just love to here a news report of it being one of the most watched, but everyone shut it off before Jake fought.

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JASN_DE@feddit.org on 12 Dec 22:26 next collapse

Of course they would.

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com on 12 Dec 22:33 next collapse

would they care ?

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world on 12 Dec 22:44 next collapse

They wouldn’t even care.

Unless you were also grifting the free week trial thingy and not actually paying the subscription. But usually they’ll only offer that once per email account/credit card.

ETA: they do know, they just don’t care if you do or not. It’s pretty normal to roll between streaming services instead of having dozens at one time.

big_slap@lemmy.world on 12 Dec 22:46 next collapse

Netflix doesn’t disclose numbers (usually), but I remember Nielsen asking me a couple of years ago to start tracking my Netflix usage. maybe stay tuned to the next fight and see what they report lol

kambusha@sh.itjust.works on 12 Dec 23:20 next collapse

You’re assuming this data would be available to people outside of the company. I doubt a whistleblower would come forward to report about how many people stopped watching when the Jake bout came on.

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 13 Dec 00:00 collapse

Yes, they will know but won’t care because a view for them doesn’t mean to watch the whole thing, to record a view it only requires a shot amount of watch time.

There was a news article a couple months back about how long you need to watch in order for each streaming service to record a watch.

Jerb322@lemmy.world on 13 Dec 04:04 collapse

I mean it to just fuck with Paul. The woman’s fight before him and Tyson was a really good fight. I should have turned it off after that. My only reason though was to mess with Jake.

“X amount of people watched every fight except Paul’s…”

chillpanzee@lemmy.ml on 13 Dec 05:31 collapse

Yeah, they know exactly where you stop, and if enough people stop at a key moment (think GoT Red Wedding), they might use that data to inform future decisions, but it’s a really mixed signal in this case. First, they have to be looking for “who stopped before the main event” as some sort of a signal. They might be, or they might look at it in the future, but like the previous person said, you’re counted as a view well before you get to that point. In their eyes, you’ve effectively voted in favor of Jake Paul because the main event is Jake Paul. It’s sorta like ordering a happy meal as a protest to MacDonalds and hoping they notice you didn’t eat the burger patty. There are clearer ways to protest, like not watching it in the first place, or canceling your sub.

Also, it won’t fuck with Jake at all. He’ll get paid either way, and there are probably a hundred other metrics his team will care about more than that one (if Netflix even shares that level of detail). Moreover, being controversial and polarizing isn’t a problem for Jake Paul. I’m sure they expect plenty of this sort of thing.

Jerb322@lemmy.world on 13 Dec 06:36 collapse

Fair enough. I just won’t watch, thanks.